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the meetings in September and October should be held on the 

 second Thursdays of these months. 



The following places were appointed for the meetings of 

 the Club in 1860. Chirnside on May 31st; EUamford on 

 June 28th; Ford, on July 26th; Whittingham, on Sept. 

 13th; and Berwick, on October 11th. 



Chirnside Meeting, May 31st, 1860. 

 To attend this day's excursion, my first in the capacity of 

 President for the year, I enjoyed the benefit of my neighbour 

 Mr. Langland's hospitality, sleeping at his house the night 

 before, and accompanying him from Bewick to Belford at an 

 early hour in the morning, where we met with some brother 

 members also on their way into Berwickshire. 



But by the same train I was met by a member of my own 

 family, who brought me a telegram which had just been re- 

 ceived, requiring me to go to London, and with very great 

 pain I felt myself compelled to give up all hope of a day with 

 our friends at Chirnside. There could not be a more unpro- 

 pitious beginning to my duties in the chair, and I only trust 

 that my exit may be of better omen. Mr. Tate's and Dr. 

 Stuart's notes of the day, are an available and valuable re- 

 miniscence of the day's ramble and its principal results. 



" There was a goodly muster of Members, at this the first 

 meeting of the year, at Chirnside, on May 31st; there being 

 present Messrs. Langlands, Home, Clay, Stevenson, Macbeath, 

 TurnbuU, Huggup, Wm. Boyd, J. Clay, C. Rea, Tate, San- 

 derson, F. R. Wilson, Dr. Stuart, the Rev. J. Dixon Clark, 

 and Wm. Darnell ; and as visitors, Mr. Green and the Rev. 

 Mr. Wilson. 



"After doing justice to the well-furnished breakfast table of 

 Dr. Stuart, the Members visited Chirnside Church, a mean 

 and unecclesiastical looking structure, though still retaining 

 some characteristic remains of the old Norman edifice in the 

 round piers, cushioned capitals, round arch, and cherson or- 

 nament of the south-western door. While here Dr. Stuart 

 read some notes on the history of the Church and on other 

 Antiquities in the neighbourhood of Chirnside. 



" Dr. Stuart gives the following notes of our ramble : — 



